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The USA-based multidimensional sonic explorers, Grails, will release a new full-length, Anches En Maat, on 22 September. A week later, on 29 September, the band's debut album, The Burden Of Hope, will get reissued via Neurot Recordings - twenty years after its original release through the label. There will be two LP variants of this reissue, Coke Bottle Clear for the US and Beer for the UK/EU.
Originally formed under the moniker Laurel Canyon - the name of the group was changed to Grails to coincide with the original release of The Burden Of Hope in October 2003.
With the news of the impending reissue, Neurosis/Neurot's Steve Von Till reveals: "When I first put on the demo tape that Grails (then called Laurel Canyon) sent to Neurot Recordings it stopped me in my tracks and changed the course of the day. It was not only exactly what I wanted to hear that day, but what I needed to hear. The pastoral melodic guitars and violin textures played often with painful restraint took me where I wanted to go. Most instrumental music at the time was trying to emulate Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Mogwai, but this was different. This seemed to have elements from more diverse sources that I loved such as Dirty Three, Comus, Richard Thompson, and Neil Young, not to mention, who in hell would dare to cover Sun City Girls? This clearly aligned them more with outsider record collectors than any sort of trend-following groups. This would become even more apparent as they evolved and morphed into the experimental psychedelic freaks they are today. It is one of my favourite albums from the Neurot catalogue".
Grails' guitarist Alex Hall comments: "In 2003 we sent a package to the Neurot Recordings mailing address with a demo CDR that contained much of what would become The Burden Of Hope. When Steve Von Till called us out of the blue and offered to release the record, it cleared the weeds to reveal a path that we've been traversing ever since and which would come to define the rest of our lives. It means an enormous amount to us to be able to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the record with Neurot".
Perhaps more about the upcoming album, Anches En Maat, next time. For now - the album's first revealed track, "Sad & Illegal"... Link
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